About Jason Edwards

Jason Edwards is Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, where he teaches political theory. His research interests lie in democratic theory and the history of political thought. He is also co-director of Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life and writes on British politics.

OurKingdom and Birkbeck’s
Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life today launch our new series on the future of the mass party. Everyone knows membership and legitimacy have been fading for many years. The question is, what happens next?

The uncritical
understanding of what constitutes a ‘community’ and the failure to grasp what
forms of citizen self-government are possible in current conditions is what
betrays the intellectual laziness of the Big Society’s key thinkers.